About MoltenEngine

MoltenEngine is a spare-time C .NET 8 game engine designed for cross-platform, multi-threaded game development. Built as a learning project, it aims to provide an alternative framework for creating games without relying on existing commercial engines. The engine features support for Windows initially, with planned compatibility for Android, Linux, Mac, and iOS. Core features include an entity component system, content management system, and input support for keyboard, mouse, and game pads, with touch support in progress. Rendering capabilities include work-in-progress support for DirectX 12 and Vulkan backends, with many advanced features still under development. Additional components such as audio, networking (MNet), physics engines (both 2D and 3D), and tooling like scene, shader, and sprite editors are in various stages of completion. Documentation is available on GitHub Pages, and nightly builds can be downloaded while releases are distributed via NuGet.

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Molten Engine Molten started as spare-time engine project, which I eventually intend to use to develop my own games without relying on other engines. Hopefully you'll find a use for it too!

While parts of this project will inevitably be a classic case of re-inventing the wheel, I'm treating it as a chance to gain more experience in the area of game engine development.

Documentation on GitHub Pages

Build Status

Pathway	Status	Download
Dev (nightly)
Release

Core Feature Status

See the following table for the per-platform support and status of each feature.

Key	Description
✔️	Functional/Complete
🚧	Work in progres
	Not Started
🚫	Not-supported

Feature	Windows	Android	Linux	Mac
Renderer - Vulkan	🚧
Renderer - DirectX 12	🚧	🚫	🚫	🚫
Networking - MNet
Audio Engine	🚧
Keyboard support	✔️
Mouse support	✔️
Touch support	🚧	🚧
Game pad support	✔️
Entity component system	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Content Management System	✔️
Example projects	🚧
2D Physics engine
3D Physics engine
Tooling - Scene editor
Tooling - Shader editor
Tooling - Sprite editor
Project templates

Renderer Feature Status

See the following table for the per-renderer support and status of each feature.

Feature	DX12	Vulkan
Multi-GPU Support	🚧	🚧
Deferrend rendering
Physically-Based (PBR)
Geometry Shaders
Tessellation
Hull & Domain Shaders
Compute Shaders
Mesh Shaders
2D Spite batching
2D Primitive batching
Compressed textures
Hardware instancing
Occlusion culling
Frustrum culling
Portal culling
Level of Detail (LoD)
HDR support
2D Texture arrays
3D Texture arrays
3D/volume textures
static skyboxes
real-time skyboxes
multi-window support
Render into WinForms
Render into WPF
Render into UWP		🚫
Render into MAUI
Render into Android UI	🚫
Raytracing
Shader Compiler (HLSL/SPIR-V)	✔️	🚧

Android

To build for Android you will need to install the Android workloads by running
dotnet workload install android in command prompt or powershell.

If you're upgrading from a previous .NET version, you may also need to run this command again to update the android workload.

Third-Party Libraries

A special thanks to each of these great libraries, without which Molten wouldn't exist in it's current form:

Silk.NET - C# Bindings for DirectX 11/12, OpenGL, Vulkan, Assimp, OpenCL, OpenAL and OpenXR
SharpDX - Source for some Molten.Math types
Magick.NET - Extensive image library for .NET
JSON.NET - JSON serialization

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